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Picking over the bones of lost kingshttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/25/owen-paterson-lost-kings-ugly-vegetables
The remains of Richard III – if the hunchbacked skeleton is him – may stay in Leicester. But Henry I remains lost in Reading<p>Another government shambles. There's a new one every day. This time they've lost Henry I. Sir Tony Baldry, the MP who represents the Church Commissioners, spoke to the Commons about the bones of Richard III. MPs have been fighting over who gets the mortal remains recently discovered under a car park in Leicester, if they prove to belong to the late king. (How do the scientists decide? I know the skeleton is hunchbacked, and there are axe wounds to the head, but have they found a crown with a few hairs stuck to it for the crucial DNA test?)</p><p>As various MPs suggested that Richard should be interred in their constitutency (if it is him, he is likely to wind up under Leicester Cathedral), Sir Tony said in a baffled sort of way that he had been worried about how many other kings have vanished, "but the only one who is still missing is Henry I, who seems to have got lost somewhere in Reading."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/25/owen-paterson-lost-kings-ugly-vegetables">Continue reading...</a>Owen PatersonCivil servicePoliticsArchaeologyScienceUK newsRichard IIIThu, 25 Oct 2012 18:49:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/oct/25/owen-paterson-lost-kings-ugly-vegetablesPhotograph: Gavin Fogg/AFP/Getty Images'Medieval knights' at the Leicester car park where a skeleton that archaelogists believe could be Richard III was found. Photograph: Gavin Fogg/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Gavin Fogg/AFP/Getty Images'Medieval knights' at the Leicester car park where a skeleton that archaelogists believe could be Richard III was found. Photograph: Gavin Fogg/AFP/Getty ImagesSimon Hoggart2012-10-25T18:49:02Z